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Donate to School of Professional Skills

You can help break down the barriers that keep people from getting the skills they need to find meaningful work.

Your generous contributions to School of Professional Skills (SOPS) are essential to securing and growing SOPS programs throughout Pakistan. We recognize donors to express our gratitude for your commitment, offering recognition as well as naming opportunities that enable you to honor a friend or family member with a named or endowed gift.

Individual recognitions

SOPS Sustaining Supporter

When you give $10 to $50 per month to the Annual Fund.

Benefactor

When you donate $100 or more to the fund outright. Benefactors receive a certificate and insignia to wear a SOPS pin.

SOPS Visionary Fellow

When you give $500 or more to the Annual Fund. To recognize someone else as a SOPS Visionary Fellow, you can give that amount in their name. 

Multiple SOPS Visionary Fellow

When you give additional gifts of $500 or more to Annual Fund.

SOPS Visionary Society member

When you elect to contribute $500 or more annually to the Annual Fund. 

Bequest Society

When you make a commitment for future gifts of $10,000 or more to School of Professional Skills (SOPS), you’ll be invited to join the Bequest Society.

  • $10,000: Bequest Society pin and an exclusive art piece suitable for framing
  • $25,000: SOPS’ Promise crystal and named endowed fund, plus all of the above
  • $50,000: Separate named endowed funds directed to two areas of focus, plus all of the above
  • $100,000: Customized SOPS’ Promise crystal, plus all of the above
  • $250,000: Posthumous induction into the Jinnah Society, plus all of the above

Major Donor

When your cumulative donations reach $10,000. Major Donors can choose to receive a crystal recognition piece and a Major Donor lapel pin or pendant. NOTE: Name recognition is not automatic and needs to be reported to SOPS Staff. Recognition items commemorate giving at these levels:

  • Level 1: $5,000 to $9,999
  • Level 2: $10,000 to $19,999
  • Level 3: $20,000 to $29,999

Jinnah Society

When your cumulative donations reach $30,000. Recognition includes an induction ceremony and your picture and biography in the Jinnah Society interactive gallery at the SOPS headquarters in Lahore, Pakistan. You also receive invitations to society events, along with membership pins and crystals that commemorate giving at the following levels. 

  • Trustees Circle: $30,000 to $59,999
  • Chair’s Circle: $60,000 to $119,999
  • Foundation Circle: $120,000 to $239,999
  • Platinum Trustees Circle: $240,000 to $479,999
  • Platinum Chair’s Circle: $480,000 to $919,999
  • Platinum Foundation Circle: $920,000 and above

Legacy Society

When you promise a gift of $1 million or more to the Endowment, you’ll be listed in SOPS’ annual report and invited to exclusive School of Professional Skills events as a legacy contributor. Legacy Society members also receive special recognition items and all the benefits provided to Bequest Society members.

If you wish to make a donation more than $1,000 outright or corporate donation, please email us.